Theodor Gomperz

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Theodor Gomperz. Painting by Franz von Lenbach
Grave of Theodor Gomperz and his wife Elise in the Döblinger Friedhof

Theodor Gomperz (born March 29, 1832 in Brno , Moravia , † August 29, 1912 in Baden near Vienna , Lower Austria) was an Austrian historian of philosophy and classical philologist .

Life

The offspring of an assimilated Jewish family of merchants and scholars was the son of Philipp Josua Feibelman Gomperz (1782–1857) and Henriette Gomperz, née Auspitz (1792–1881). Theodor Gomperz was the brother of Josephine Gomperz, married Josephine von Wertheimstein (1820–1894), the industrialists Max von Gomperz (1822–1913) and Julius von Gomperz (1823–1909) and Sophie Gomperz, married Sophie von Todesco (1825– 1895).

From his marriage to Elise Sichrovsky (1848–1929) the philosopher Heinrich Gomperz (1873–1942), the sculptor and writer Bettina Gomperz (1879–1948) and the ski and tourism pioneer in St. Anton am Arlberg Rudolf Gomperz (1878, Vienna – 1942, Maly Trostinez extermination camp ).

Theodor Gomperz studied 1847–1849 at the Philosophical School in Brno and then in Vienna with Hermann Bonitz . Gomperz devoted himself to further studies as a private scholar and received his habilitation in 1867 without a doctorate. In 1873 he became professor of classical philology in Vienna. From 1896 to 1909 he published his major three-volume work, Greek Thinkers . In 1900 he retired; he was succeeded by Emil Szanto .

He rests in an honorary grave in the Döblinger Friedhof (group 17, number 6) in Vienna. In 1927 the Gomperzgasse in Vienna- Ottakring (16th district) was named after him.

Works

  • Demosthenes the statesman (1864)
  • Philodemi de ira liber (1864)
  • Dream Interpretation and Sorcery (1866)
  • Herculan Studies (1865–1866)
  • Contributions to the criticism and explanation of Greek writers (7 volumes, 1875–1900)
  • New fragments of Epicurus (1876)
  • The Fragments of the Greek Tragedians and Cobet's Latest Critical Manner (1878)
  • Herodoteic Studies (1883)
  • A previously unknown Greek writing system (1884)
  • On Philodem's Books of Music (1885)
  • Concluding the Herodoteic History (1886)
  • Platonic Essays (3 vols, 1887–1905)
  • On Heraclitus' teaching and the remains of his work (1887)
  • On Aristotle's Poetics (2 parts, 1888–1896)
  • About the characters of Theophrast (1888)
  • Gleanings on the Fragments of the Greek Tragedians (1888)
  • The Apology of Healing Art (1890)
  • Philodem and the Aesthetic Writings of the Herculan Library (1891)
  • The writing on the state of the Athenians (1891)
  • The recently discovered remains of a papyrus scroll containing the Platonic Phaedon (1892)
  • From the Hekale of Callimachus (1893)
  • Greek thinkers. A History of Ancient Philosophy (1896–1909)
    • Volume 1, Greek Natural Philosophers and Sophists , 1896
    • Volume 2, Socrates and Plato , 1902
    • Volume 3, Aristotle and his successors , Von Veit, Leipzig 1909
  • Essays and Memoirs (1905)
  • The apology of the healing art. A Greek sophist speech from the 5th century BC (1910)
  • Hellenika. A selection of small philological and philosophical writings (1912)

Honors

  • Medal for his 60th birthday in 1892. On it the bust of Gomperz, on the reverse the coastal landscape with Vesuvius , a young man with a pickaxe and two reading women as allegories for archeology , philology and philosophy .

literature

Web links

Commons : Theodor Gomperz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Theodor Gomperz  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Illustration of the coin
personal data
SURNAME Gomperz, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian philosopher and classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1912
Place of death Baden near Vienna , Lower Austria